The fossils are from creatures as small as insects to those that were bigger than a modern elephant.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

And these texts almost defy interpretation by a modern person, unless you have guidance from a historian and expert like moi.

这些文本几乎无法由现代人翻译，除非由历史学家或专家指导，比如我。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

My mom is a modern dancer and my dad is a lighting designer and technician

我妈妈是现代舞演员，我爸爸是个灯光设计师兼技术人员。

成为演员之路 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

About thirty years later, the old mansion was connected to a modern building that was added.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

That name could also describe a dessert served at Buddakan, a modern-Asian restaurant in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

So there're some who are choosing a modern equal Kashrut which embraces organic food for example.

所以有一些人正在遵循,一种现代而平等的饮食教规，比如提倡有机食品。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And they thought Tennessee's law againt teaching evolution was foolish in a modern,scientific society.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

We talked about the artificial hip which is a modern precursor of the splint I talked about before.

我们之前说到的人造髋关节,就是由固定腿部的夹板衍生而来

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He says it is a re-imagining of the first show with a modern touch.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Looking at a modern day map of Antarctica gives clues about its first explorers.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

and he's a modern artist. And it's kind of minimalist style.

他是一个现代艺术家。他有种极简抽象派艺术风格。

喜欢的艺术家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Kuwaiti director Sulayman Al-Bassam recreated Shakespeare's famous play in a modern Arab setting.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

This is Yeats in costume, costumed as a figure from Irish myth, as an ancient bard, mad King Goll, which is the furthest thing from a modern poet.

穿着奇装异服的叶芝，打扮成爱尔兰传说中的人物，过去的吟唱诗人，疯癫的郭尔王，他与这位现代诗人相隔甚远。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And they can follow the path of the trail over a modern highway.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Anyway, if you imagine sort of putting on a modern football helmet, with that mask in front of you, you would begin to get an idea, only begin to get an idea of what it was like to have that bronze helmet on your head.

总之,如果你戴着一个现代橄榄球头盔,前面还有面具,你就能稍微体会一下那种感觉了,但这还是跟铜质头盔的感觉,相去甚远的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Here is a modern version of the song, sung by Willie Nelson.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

So this is kind of a modern show and that is kind of a retro language and it's also as will be one of the takeaways of this course completely irrelevant to what problem you are solving, the fact that this engineer is using--proclaiming to use Visual Basic really is not a compelling part of the story.

这看起来很时髦,像是重新流行的语言,当然，该语言是我们学习这门课程,过程中附带着要学习的,这与解决什么问题无关，事实上，使用VB真的不是,这个故事出彩的地方。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Bela Fleck brings a modern sound to this traditional string instrument.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

Ok. I don't think I'm a modern art guy.

嗯，我想自己欣赏不了现代艺术。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Here is a modern recording from "An American in Paris."

VOA: special.2009.02.15

They're really quite remarkable. It's not unlike what the Turner Broadcasting Network does with old movies, colorizing them in order to make them more palatable to a modern audience.

真的很了不起，这类似于,特纳广播公司处理老电影的做法，给它们加上颜色使其更符合现代观众口味。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Here is a modern recording by Maureen McGovern.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Name me a modern American president who won the presidency without at least some success in the states of the old Confederacy.

谁能告诉我现代哪一位美国总统,能够在失去南方诸州支持后,还能赢得总统大选的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

General Motors was the first auto company in the United States to mass produce a modern electric car.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

And,as a modern person,you're going, "What is this? What's going on with this?"

作为现代人，你一定会问，“搞什么？怎么回事“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"Having an effective state and a modern economy, which requires toiling more than a year."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, normally at this point, we do actually start class with a little bit of history from alchemy to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this year.

通常在这个时候,我们要从一些从炼金术,到现代化学的历史出发正式开始我们的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选